WORLD WIDE WEIRD

Come with us as we go around the world in a daze!

First stop: NEW ZEALAND

Postal workers on Auckland's North Shore called the fire department and evacuated the building when a smelly "fart bomb" went off at their postal office. The fart bomb was a giveaway in a magazine, but when other packages were placed on top of the magazine, the sachet bomb burst and released its contents.

Next stop:INDIA

Ram Singh Chauhan, from Rajasthan, is a major tourist attraction in the city with what could be the world's longest mustache. He says he massages the mustache, which he started growing in 1982, with mustard and coconut oil. Says Chauhan: "Whatever endeavor we take in life, we have to work very hard for it, we have to struggle and toil hard for it. The mustache has to be tended and nurtured just like a baby."

Next stop:CHINA

As part of the celebration surrounding the Year of the Pig, officials introduced postage stamps that taste like sweet-and-sour pork.

Next stop:SERBIA

Villagers in Zitiste, fed up with making the news only when their town gets flooded, said they will erect a huge statue of Sylvester Stallone's character Rocky Balboa.

Next stop:THE U.S.A.!

In New York City, a performance artist put on a business suit, kneepads and a rubber George W. Bush mask and crawled across Manhattan for 72 hours with a sign stuck to his posterior that read simply: "Kick My (Butt)."

-- The New Zealand Herald; The Sun; Reuters; Bill Flick, Bloomington-Normal Daily Pantagraph; The Age